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A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set
aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of
plants and other forms of nature. The garden can
incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The
most common form is known as a residential garden.
Western gardens are almost universally based around
plants.
Some gardens are for ornamental purposes only, while
some gardens also produce food crops, sometimes in
separate areas, or sometimes intermixed with the
ornamental plants. Food-producing gardens are
distinguished from farms by their smaller scale,
more labor-intensive methods, and their purpose.
Gardening is the activity of growing and maintaining
the garden. This work is done by an amateur or
professional gardener. A gardener might also work in
a non-garden setting, such as a park, a roadside
embankment, or other public space. Landscape
architecture is a related professional activity with
landscape architects tending to specialise in design
for public and corporate clients.
The term "garden" in British English
refers to an enclosed area of land, usually
adjoining a building. This would be referred to as a
yard in American English. Flower gardens combine
plants of different heights, colors, textures, and
fragrances to create interest and delight the
senses.
Types
of Garden:
English
Garden
The term English garden or English park is used in
Continental Europe to refer to a type of garden with
its origins on the English landscape gardens of the
18th century. The main ingredients of every garden
are statues, water, and the surrounding land. The
name differentiates it from the formal baroque
design of the French formal garden. One of the
best-known English gardens in Europe is the
Englischer Garten in Munich, Germany.
In the United Kingdom the style is particularly
associated with Capability Brown. The style was only
dominant in English gardening for a relatively short
period from the mid 18th century to the early 19th
century, and the majority of most famous gardens in
England are not in this style.
The canonical European English park contains a
number of Romantic elements. Always present is a
pond or small lake with a pier or bridge.
Overlooking the pond is a round or hexagonal
pavilion, often in the shape of a monopteros, a
Roman temple. Sometimes the park also has a
"Chinese" pavilion. Other elements include
a grotto and imitation ruins.
French
Garden
A formal garden or French garden is a neat and ordered
garden laid out in carefully planned geometric and
symmetric lines. Lawns and hedges in a formal garden
must always be kept neatly clipped. Trees, shrubs,
subshrubs and other foliage is carefully arranged,
shaped and continually trimmed.
The simplest formal garden would be a box-trimmed
hedge lining or enclosing a carefully laid out
flowerbed or garden bed, such as a knot garden. The
most elaborate formal gardens contain pathways,
statuary, fountains and beds on differing levels.
The French formal garden had its origins in
sixteenth-century Italian gardens such as Boboli
Gardens behind Palazzo Pitti, Florence, laid out by
a series of architect-designers for the Grand
Duchess Eleanor of Toledo. The formal parterre was
transferred to France, where some of the earliest
formal parterres were those laid out at Anet.
Tropical
Garden
 A tropical garden features tropical plants and
requires good rainfall or a decent irrigation or
sprinkler system for watering. These gardens
typically need fertilizer and heavy mulching.
Tropical gardens are no longer exclusive to tropical
areas. Many gardeners in colder climates are
adopting the tropical garden design, which is
possible through careful choice of plants and
flowers. Main features include plants with very
large leaves, vegetation that builds in height
towards the back of the garden, creating a dense
garden. Large plants and small trees hang over the
garden, leaving sunlight to hit the ground directly.
Japanese
Garden
 Japanese gardens, that is, gardens in traditional
Japanese style, can be found at private homes, in
neighborhood or city parks, and at historical
landmarks such as Buddhist temples and old castles.
Some of the Japanese gardens most famous in the
West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or
rock gardens, karesansui. The tradition of the Tea
masters has produced highly refined Japanese gardens
of quite another style, evoking rural simplicity. In
Japanese culture, garden-making is a high art,
intimately related to the linked arts of calligraphy
and ink painting. Since the end of the 19th century,
Japanese gardens have also been adapted to Western
settings.
Japanese gardens were developed under the influences
of the distinctive and stylized Chinese gardens. One
of the great interest for the historical development
of the Japanese garden, bonseki, bonsai and related
arts is the c. 1300 Zen monk Kokan Shiren and his
rhymeprose essay Rhymeprose on a Miniature Landscape
Garden.
Source:
wikipedia.com
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